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Can computers count

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Yes, a computer can count. You could get a computer to count forever, if you wanted to. All a computer does is compute information. So yes, you could get a computer to count. But, wouldn't your fingers suffice?

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Horses cannot count. Even though you have probably heard about the horse that knew math, it isn't true. The horse picked up on signals people unconsiously gave, and the horse was smart enough to understand them. Long before people knew about these signals, the owners of these horses were killed because they were "witches".

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No, counting uses abstract abilities in the human brain. Plus, animals have no reason or need to count (anything).

However, humans can train some animals to do tricks that make it APPEAR the animal is "counting". But it is only from training, rewards, and repetition. Repetition involves repeating the trick or tricks in exactly the same order. But if you asked the same animal to "count" something, the animal would fail because it was not trained to do that trick.

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Watch this video of a dog barking out answers to simple arithmetic questions:

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=lMBA9yIrq3w

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